DECLARATION OF THE GLOBAL ROUNDTABLE FOR COUNTDOWN 2015: SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS FOR ALL

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Fuente: The Power of Law of Every Woman

Who
we
are
We
have
come
from
109
countries
to
meet
in
London
on
the
tenth
anniversary
of
the
International
Conference
on
Population
and
Development,
Cairo,
1994.
We
come
from
small
villages
and
big
cities;
we
come
from
groups
and
networks
representing
a
broad
spectrum
of
civil
society.
We
speak
as
individuals,
and
we
seek
to
speak
also
for
our
membership
and
those
we
serve.

We
are
youth
leaders,
service
providers,
feminist
activists,
community-based
organizers,
women’s
health
advocates,
policymakers,
academics,
religious
leaders,
physicians,
researchers,
artists
and
parliamentarians.
Many
of
us
took
part
in
the
Cairo
conference;
others
have
become
active
in
the
decade
between.
All
of
us
are
working
to
realize
the
main
objective
of
Cairo:
universal
access
to
sexual
and
reproductive
health
and
rights
for
all
by
2015.

What
we
believeWe
believe
in
the
promise
of
Cairo.
We
believe
that
the
Cairo
Programme
of
Action
permanently
altered
the
framework
for
discussion
and
action
on
sexual
and
reproductive
health
and
rights.
We
affirm
the
right
to
health,
and
that
sexual
and
reproductive
rights
are
human
rights—universal,
interdependent
and
indivisible.
We
believe
that
these
rights
must
be
at
the
centre
of
sexual
and
reproductive
health
plans,
programmes
and
interventions.
We
are
a
diverse
group,
and
we
celebrate
diversity.

We
strive
for
gender
equality,
women’s
empowerment
and
social
justice.
We
believe
that
young
people
and
adolescents,
not
only
adults,
have
the
right
to
make
free
and
informed
choices
about
their
sexuality
and
their
reproductive
lives.

We
know
that
implementing
the
Cairo
Programme
of
Action
is
an
essential
condition
for
achieving
the
Millennium
Development
Goals.
We
cannot
end
poverty
without
equitable
access
to
sexual
and
reproductive
health
and
rights;

Human
rights,
public
health
and
sustainable
economic
development,
in
harmony
with
the
natural
environment
can
and
must
reinforce
each
other.
Sexual
and
reproductive
health
cannot
exist
in
the
absence
of
livelihood
and
property
rights.

We
believe
that
investments
in
health
and
education
cannot
be
sacrificed
in
the
name
of
the
free
market.
We
believe
that
we
must
rely
on
science,
not
ideology,
in
promoting
human
development.

The
world
we
haveWe
have
seen
progress
in
the
ten
years
since
Cairo,
but
many
gaps
remain.

We
have
seen
the
quality
of
reproductive
health
improve
in
many
countries;
but
we
have
seen
new
charges
for
basic
services,
and
more
poor
women
who
cannot
afford
them.

We
have
seen
more
attention
to
maternity
care,
but
we
have
seen
no
decline
in
maternal
mortality
in
the
poorest
countries

We
have
seen
more
infants
survive
the
first
years
of
life;
but
we
have
seen
more
of
them
lose
their
parents
to
HIV/AIDS.

We
have
seen
more
girls
go
to
school,
but
we
have
seen
more
girls
kept
out
of
school
by
rising
costs,
and
we
have
seen
schools
close
for
lack
of
funds.

We
have
seen
women’s
participation
in
all
spheres
of
life
increase;
but
we
have
also
seen
increasing
violence
and
sexual
oppression
against
them;
We
have
recognised
the
important
role
that
women
and
girls
play
in
peace-building;
yet
we
have
seen
violence
against
women
and
girls
used
as
a
weapon
of
war;

We
have
seen
successful
condom
marketing
campaigns;
but
we
have
seen
supplies
of
condoms
dry
up.

We
have
seen
HIV/AIDS
treatments
improve
and
prices
fall;
but
we
have
seen
countless
young
men
and
women
infected
with
HIV/AIDS,
with
scarcely
a
possibility
of
treatment
to
extend
their
lives.

We
have
applauded
international
solidarity
behind
the
Cairo
Programme
of
Action;
but
we
have
seen
an
increasingly
strident
and
determined
opposition,
whose
actions
cost
lives,
health
and
progress.

We
have
participated
in
the
Millennium
Summit
and
helped
to
forge
the
Millennium
Development
Goals
of
halving
extreme
poverty
by
2015;
but
we
have
seen
little
urgency
to
reach
them.
For
many
policymakers,
the
free
market
has
crowded
out
the
vision.

Global
indicators
show
less
poverty:
but
local
realities
reveal
growing
disparities
between
rich
and
poor.
We
who
work
on
the
ground
can
see
who
is
benefiting,
and
who
is
being
left
behind.

Our
experience
since
Cairo,
and
experience
in
all
countries,
shows
what
is
possible.
The
goals
of
the
Cairo
Programme
of
Action
are
realistic
and
attainable.
We
see
what
to
do
and
how
urgent
it
is
that
we
do
it.
We
call
on
all
those
who
share
the
vision
of
Cairo
to
join
in
making
it
a
reality.

We
want
a
worldWhere
poverty
has
ended
and
inequalities
are
reduced;
where
macro-economic
and
trade
policies
allow
developing
countries
to
prosper;
Where
governments
guarantee
the
rights
of
people
irrespective
of
age,
ethnic
origin,
race,
physical
and
mental
ability,
indigenous
status,
HIV
status,
gender
identity
or
sexual
orientation;
where
governments
decide
policy
on
secular,
pluralistic
principles;
and
where
the
work
of
civil
society
organisations
is
supported,
their
autonomy
respected
and
true
partnerships
established;

Where
democracy
means
equal
participation
of
women,
and
the
full
involvement
of
young
people,
the
excluded,
migrants,
the
displaced
and
rural
populations
in
decision-making
at
all
levels;
where
women
can
exercise
their
human
rights,
and
secure
their
equal
partnership
with
men,
in
families
and
in
society,
for
the
benefit
of
all;
and
where
all
kinds
of
families,
and
people
outside
families,
have
the
same
respect
and
protection;

Where
young
people
have
a
supportive
environment
in
which
to
practise
their
human
rights
and
engage
as
active
citizens;
and
where
all
adolescents
in
and
out
of
school
have
access
to
comprehensive
sexuality
education;

Where
all
who
need
them
have
access
to
health,
education
and
social
services;
and
where
spending
on
books
replaces
spending
on
missiles
and
warplanes;

Where
health
systems
are
well
funded
and
staffed,
and
respond
to
people’s
needs;
and
where
all
health
services
respect
confidentiality
and
privacy;

Where
all
have
access
to
uncensored,
medically
accurate
information,
and
to
the
means
to
prevent
HIV
infection
and
treat
HIV/AIDS;
where
HIV
interventions
are
integrated
in
sexual
and
reproductive
health
programmes;
and
where
affordable
drugs
are
available
to
all
who
need
them.

Where
sexual
pleasure
is
recognised
as
part
of
a
full
human
life;

Where
personal
safety
is
guaranteed,
and
violence
against
women
and
girls
does
not
exist;

Where
women
and
girls
do
not
die
in
childbirth
and
pregnancy;
where
they
have
access
to
safe
and
legal
abortion;
and
where
women
and
men
can
decide
freely
and
responsibly
whether
and
when
to
have
children.

Ten
years
after
Cairo,
we
continue
to
be
inspired
by
its
vision
of
a
world
of
justice,
rights,
possibilities
and
choices.
We
are
working
to
help
bring
this
world
into
being,
and
call
on
others
to
join
us.

Ten
years
still
remain:
the
goals
of
the
Programme
of
Action
are
within
reach.
We
dedicate
ourselves
once
more
to
the
vision
of
Cairo.